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Front. Psychol., 03 December 2013

Sec. Psychology of Language

Volume 4 - 2013 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00905

Erratum: Neural entrainment to rhythmically-presented auditory, visual and audio-visual speech in children

  • AJ

    Alan J. Power *

  • NM

    Natasha Mead

  • LB

    Lisa Barnes

  • UG

    Usha Goswami

  • Department of Experimental Psychology, Centre for Neuroscience in Education, University of Cambridge Cambridge, UK

Two inadvertent errors were discovered in Power et al. (2012). The first relates to Figure 3. This figure showed the histograms for one subject and not the whole group. A corrected Figure is included here. Rayleigh statistics carried out on these updated histograms reveal two differences in entrainment compared to the published results:

  • Theta activity at Oz in the visual condition, which was previously though not to be entrained, is in fact entrained.

  • Delta activity at Oz in the Audio-visual condition, which was previously thought to entrain to the stimulus, does not do so.

Figure 3

Therefore, the published data should be adjusted as follows (differing results in bold italics):

  • A:

  • Fzδ: Z = 16.72, p < 0.0001. Fzθ: Z = 84.45, p < 0.0001

  • Ozδ: Z = 11.22, p < 0.0001. Ozθ: Z = 94.11, p < 0.0001

  • V:

  • Fzδ: Z = 11.66, p < 0.0001. Fzθ: Z = 2.07, p > 0.05

  • Ozδ: Z = 41.29, p < 0.0001. Ozθ: Z = 14.91, p < 0.0001

  • AV:

  • Fzδ: Z = 9.42, p < 0.001. Fzθ: Z = 92.85, p < 0.0001

  • Ozδ: Z = 2.45, p > 0.05. Ozθ: Z = 90.62, p < 0.0001

The second error was observed when comparing Total Power in the A and (AV-V) conditions. ANOVA results should be as follows.

Repeated Measures ANOVA (frequency × condition) on Total Power:

  • Frequency: F(1, 22) = 261.62, p < 0.001, ηp2 = 0.922

  • Condition: F(1, 22) = 13.76, p = 0.001, ηp2 = 0.385

  • Frequency × Condition: F(1, 22) = 1.42, p > 0.05

Neither of these results effect the overall conclusions of the paper:

  • Neural entrainment was demonstrated for all stream types, and individual differences in standardized measures of language processing were related to auditory entrainment at the theta rate.

  • There was significant modulation of the preferred phase of auditory entrainment in the theta band when visual speech cues were present.

References

  • 1

    PowerA. J.MeadN.BarnesL.GoswamiU. (2012). Neural entrainment to rhythmically presented auditory, visual, and audio-visual speech in children. Front. Psychol. 3:216. 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00216

Summary

Keywords

entrainment, audio-visual speech perception, rhythm, oscillations, language

Citation

Power AJ, Mead N, Barnes L and Goswami U (2013) Erratum: Neural entrainment to rhythmically-presented auditory, visual and audio-visual speech in children. Front. Psychol. 4:905. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00905

Received

04 November 2013

Accepted

15 November 2013

Published

03 December 2013

Volume

4 - 2013

Edited by

Marcela Pena, Catholic University of Chile, Chile

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*Correspondence:

This article was submitted to Language Sciences, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology.

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